 How can you become more productive? Now, if you clicked on this video, you probably clicked on dozens of other videos on the same topic But by this point, they probably don't phase you as much because while the tips may be great They don't apply to you. So in this video instead of just giving you the top six or seven tips that I want to give you I'm actually going to show you how they work in real action I'm going to take my evening to-do list and I'm going to essentially see can these tips Get me to the end of the day with an empty to-do list and a successful evening So essentially I'm putting my money where my mouth is. Hope you guys enjoy this tips Hope you guys enjoy this video after this intro All right guys What is going on? Luckship and then the journey helping you succeed on your journey with less stress today I wanted to do something a little bit differently instead of just giving you a generic productivity video I'm actually take you through my evening and show you how different tips I love using to be more productive actually apply to my to-do list So let's quickly just go in and look at my computer to see what my to-do list looks like All right guys So now we are officially in my computer I just want to quickly show you my to-do list and give you also tip number one So tip number one is to first obviously lay down everything you want to have done But two also to include the time that you want it to be done and overestimate So let me just quickly go through an example. So here's my to-do list. I have to do some residency paperwork There's a lot of it before you start your first job. I need to record a new YouTube video for you guys It's not this one. I need to fold my clothes because I have a lot of laundry that just finished And then I need to edit a blog post before the weekend. So as you can see it's about 705 And so now what I like to do instead of just putting it to-do list I like to give myself a deadline on how long I expect this task to take so residency paperwork I can easily probably do in about 20 minutes, but just overestimate. I'm gonna say 745 Recording my YouTube videos you just takes me about an hour So I'm gonna estimate that you know It's gonna take me 15 minutes to go from the residency paperwork to getting set up to begin my YouTube video So I'd just say you know I start at 8 and I finish at 845 and then folding clothes Who knows how long I'll take but let's just say I finish around 915 30 minutes this should be enough to fold clothes and then edit blog post It usually takes me about an hour to edit blog post So let's just say instead of starting right at 915 I start at 930 and that means an hour should be Finishing around 1030 and I'm gonna probably call it a day at that point And then we can readjust but this gives you a nice kind of framework of what your day will look like So this is tip number one because if I realize that editing blog post probably won't get done until like 1130 or 1230 I probably would change it to like maybe just do edit half of your blog post and so You know it just requires you to play around versus being surprised later on so that's tip number one And I'm gonna give you tip number two after this clip. All right guys So now let's get into tip number two which is to make your boring tasks Interesting now as you saw my first task for the evening is to get my residency paperwork done And just to show you there is a lot of it and they're all double-sided too So I can probably think of a hundred and one things I rather do than do that And so I have to make it attractive somehow so today what I'm gonna do is I'm basically gonna go across the street Local Starbucks and just get it done within 20 minutes ideally and take very little So just probably just take my laptop my phone put it on You know do not disturb mode and then enjoy a nice coffee as I'm kind of pushing through all this paperwork So I will give you guys the progress on that. Hopefully I'm able to be done by 745 That was a deadline I gave myself and then we'll get to tip number three after this clip All right guys, so managed to finish up at Starbucks and I finished up all my residency paperwork And it is right around 745 so I feel pretty good right on schedule I thought it'd be a good time to give you tip number three Which is to use Pomodoro chunking now most of y'all know what Pomodoro is is basically a timer to like Give you intervals between 25 minutes and five minutes of break and work To make you kind of be in a sense of flow The Pomodoro chunking is an advanced technique that I teach a lot of my students in my courses all linked down below By the way, and basically the way it works is you take a big task Let's say you have a task that's going to take you an hour and a half like I'm about to edit a youtube video It may take me a while you may be studying for an exam or something instead of saying I have an hour and a half Task break it up into 25 minute chunks So an hour and a half task would be for Pomodoro chunks The nice thing is is that now you can look at each chunk as an individual task and in case You know it's overwhelming to do an hour and a half of this task You can do you know 25 minutes at the start of the day 25 minutes at lunchtime and then the remaining two chunks So they're remaining 50 minutes at the evening And so it allows you a little bit of flexibility because then if you wake up late one morning You can move that Pomodoro chunking later to the evening or if you have a good start You feel really productive you can start getting a little chunks of a big task done much faster So it really helps me stay in a sense of flow So I'm going to use that technique to edit this youtube video Ideally I'm able to finish it with an hour but I'm basically going to break them up into 15 minute chunks of time slots and Then take a little bit of a break in between so I feel like I have to just accomplish a little piece of a big task So let's see how this Pomodoro chunking technique works for me as I go ahead and create this youtube video for you guys But first gotta get home. So I'll see you guys home. All right guys, so we are back in my computer I want to show you how the Pomodoro chunking technique works in action So as I said, I want to break this down into many chunks because this is a really big task You know coming up at the video doing research and putting it all together and trying to do it in an hour Remember my deadline is 845 so even less than an hour. So we'll see if I can get there So I'm breaking it down into 15 minute chunks And so I'm gonna break it down to essentially four chunks that I've come up with and each of them have a main goal So every 15 minutes every 10 to 15 minutes. I'm trying to do One of these tasks. So the first chunk is just gonna be me coming up with research and the points that I want to make For the video enough for the blog post Chunk two is gonna be me have obviously outlining what I'm gonna say deciding what I'll need for the video In terms of clips that need to record and then three or four are really basically where I'm gonna be recording So this is a nice overview because basically these are like many accomplishments if I can get through chunk one I feel pretty good I can get through chunk two I feel pretty good And if I don't get to turn three or four today for whatever reason maybe it's taking a little bit long either I can push the task to go a little bit later or I can start tomorrow and just have to worry about one specific chunk Versus this whole video. So, you know any task you have that seems very daunting Anything that takes more than I would say an hour and 15 hour and 30 is perfect to try to use Pomodoro chunking because you can try to do it in one sitting like I'm about to do but just in case you don't You know, you don't have to feel guilty for a task taking a little bit long Than it should this is a technique that I love using because it keeps me in a sense of flow And in case I don't let's say I don't manage to get to chunk number four I can just add it to the start of my next day And so I'm already kind of planning and knowing what I'm gonna be working on So I'm gonna basically gonna get a get a head start on working on this because I have less than 45 minutes to finish All this but we'll see maybe I'm a little bit behind schedule. That's okay So I'll give you guys a little bit sneak peek of what's like to make a video Alright, it's a quick update managed to finish two time chunks about 15 minutes each And still have roughly about 30 minutes left to do the remaining task Which is basically to record have done the planning phase And it is about 817 so 845 is the goal So between now and then basically gonna be recording the video. So I'll catch you guys then All right guys, so managed to finish up the video and I'm quite happy with myself It is only right at 850 and so I'm only five minutes over my deadline So originally I wanted to finish my videos around 845 so 850. I'm totally happy with but I am a little bit tired now So it's a perfect opportunity to mention tip number four, which is to impact stack So when you have a high energy task high kind of effort task like recording a video Studying for an exam and then you still have one coming up before you can end your day I still have to edit a blog post Which is also very draining find a task in the middle That's not so so draining and kind of put it in the middle and like sandwich it So I still need to fold my clothes and that's my other item am I to do this? I'm gonna put it in the middle so that way I can do it You know regain some energy and then use my last bit of effort to edit that blog post So impact stacking is huge, especially if you feel like you're always Drained after big tasks and you still have a lot left on your plate find those little things Maybe some house chores are perfect examples of it You can fit in the middle still feel productive still feel no sense of flow But you know regain some of that energy that you just spent so let's get into folding some clothes Hey guys, so quick update. So obviously managed to finish folding on my clothes also started my next task Which was editing the blog post now it was like 2,900 words that I had to edit So it's clearly very tiring. It's right at 10 20 and I have about a fourth left of the post to finish So essentially what I decided is I'm going to use my pomodoro chunking technique And since I have a fourth of the task left I'm gonna move that to tomorrow morning and not feel guilty to basically call it a day at this point And so I thought it was a good kind of transition to end the video with my last two tips So tip number five I think it's five is to basically have a reward at the end of your to-do list or the end of your day So I would hate it to have done the the blog post then go straight to bed because I was so tired Many of you guys probably know the experience of like studying for a long evening And then just not having any time to even enjoy yourself and all you want to do is just go to sleep Those aren't really fun days because you're not motivated to be productive the next day Now obviously I want to have a productive evening like I did today tomorrow So I have to have some type of report and we can be 20 minutes 30 minutes And so I'm just gonna quickly jump on the Xbox For like 10 to 15 minutes is probably all the energy I have and then probably grab a book and Go ahead and read that for the remaining part of the night and then call it a day That's my reward It feels like a good transition because I am running now on my schedule and not the tasks that I have to do And so make sure you have some kind of reward however small or big you want it to make And schedule that ahead of time just the way you schedule all of your to-do list items And then the final tip tip number six is basically a two part Which is one taking care of your clerical work at the end of the day So that's like things such as emails texting people back And the reason I like to put this at the very end of the day is because now You have done everything that you consider to be a priority and now you are responding to other people's requested view Versus like responding to emails as soon as they come in it seems like you're being prompt But honestly no one notices the difference between you applying or replying Immediately versus replying in a few hours or like, you know the next morning So I like to always put my emails at the end of the day Honestly till the end of the week if they can help I can hold off Till then because then I can manage to run on my own schedule and then the final part of Step number six is to go ahead and start scheduling your next morning at least I have not your full day because you want to get in a state of flow So I want to be able to wake up next tomorrow morning and have you know Just as much productivity as I did this evening like I got a lot done paperwork essay of video clothes If that's a lot and remember we started right around like 7 p.m And it's only 10 so it's you know at three hours. I managed to get done Probably what most people would want to get done in a day And so I want to have that flow tomorrow So I'm gonna create what tasks I want to do in the first like three hours of the morning You may be getting a workout starting at least finishing the rest of the editing so that way as soon as I wake up I know what I have to do versus having to spend extra energy and try to plan it out You know you get up You know what time you need to get up and then you can start getting on those tasks So that's step number six Do your clerical work at the very end and make sure you spend that very last bit of the day Planning for the next morning if not the next part of the day So that is all of my six tips that I wanted to give you guys And hopefully this kind of demonstration of how it applies to at least my evening routine Helped you guys understand how you could apply it to your own to-do list So if you enjoyed this video Obviously make sure you give it a like and to if you haven't subscribe to the channel Make sure you do comment down below with anything you learned if you did enjoy this format of A video where I'm giving tips, but also showing you how it like works in a real-life situation Make sure you let me know down below in the comment section so I can make more videos just like this But thank you guys so much for watching and make it till the end. I'll see you guys in the next one. Take care my friends